I Quotes
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“If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.”
“If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.”
Source: Live Your Truth
“If there is one lesson I would share with fellow photographers and storytellers, it’s this: Stay focused, be patient, and always critique your work with grace and curiosity.”
“If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.”
Source: Italian Days
“If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.”
“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.”
“If there is one more book on the library shelf, that is because there is one less person in life. If I must choose between the shelf and the world, then I prefer the world.”
Source: The Letter Killers Club
“If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.”
Source: Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.”
Source: A The Tyranny of Experts: How the Fight Against Global Poverty Suppressed Individual Rights
“If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.”
“if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.”
“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”
Source: The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed
“If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay.”
“If there is one place we should begin, it is with a resolve to not conceal sins, to not seal ourselves off from people's suffering by burying it under a mountain of vacuous bullshit. Euphemisms are an attempt to find pleasant words for an ugly reality, and in doing so, they allow their users to avoid feeling guilty or uncomfortable. This is why they are particularly common in the business world, where executives do not want to admit that they are ruining a lot of people's lives through mass firings and so discuss restructuring, outsourcing, redundancy, and streamlining. An independent contractor is a worker who has no benefits or guaranteed hours, and increasing efficiency often means making people do more work in less time.”
Source: Why You Should Be a Socialist
“If there is one pleasure on earth which surpasses all others, it is leaving a play before the end. I might perhaps except the joy of taking tickets for a play, dining well, sitting on after dinner, and finally not going at all. That, of course, is very heaven.”
Source: High Rising: A Virago Modern Classic
“If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”
Source: Molloy
“If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.”
“If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.”
“If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant:
“If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.”
Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman
“If there is one rule, just one rule,
that you could and should break in your life,
it is the one that limits you to believing
in yourself as a being born with unique
abilities in a life full of possibilities.”
Source: Insights of A Rebel Mind: Embracing The Power Within
“If there is one ruler that can harmonize and unify the mob of characters [in our astral body], it is the Ego (the Higher Ego, or Self, or Spirit). The more the Ego shines like a sun at the center of gravity of the astral body, the more the different characters start orbiting around it. Instead of working only to satisfy their own selfish desires, the characters start manifesting the purposes of the light and of the Spirit. Instead of plotting for the success of their own ambitions, they start accomplishing the works of the Higher Self... The unveiling of the Self begins a process of unification--a new astral body slowly develops. In this new, or transformed, astral body, the different parts are penetrated by the light of the Self. Therefore they are not only united around the Self, but are also cemented to it... [Before this process], one is nothing more than an appearance: it is the illusion of being one person...”
Source: Entity Possession: Freeing the Energy Body of Negative Influences
“If there is one satisfactory mode, it is in the intermixture of art and criticism, of creativity and curiosity, which is the essential way to love and think such dense and rich human experience. It is the poetic attitude, shadowed closely by its critical child, which alone together sustain the species. The melancholics have forgotten or betrayed poiesis, limiting it the display of the unbearable.
Nevertheless, this bleakness about life, the inability to stand in the face of finitude's complexities that this reflects, betrays the species' fundamental quality of mimesis, of imagination as part of the answer to the human question. The consequences of this inability have been dire for intellectual life; it does not have confidence that imagination can, in the here and now, achieve an albeit always limited victory in struggle. Bleakness and weakness live in the allegorical, in the infinite deferral of hope over a utopian horizon. Committed to ruin, it cannot see or accept the hard truths of limit, love, and beauty. Therefore, it impoverishes the human, its capacities, and its challenges. It devalues its creations, their beauties, and their successes - simply because none of them is final, apocalyptic, erasure of the finitude that makes the secular world. It not only crystallizes the work of imagination in one key but condemns the imagination to the endless iteration of the same monotone. For the melancholics, bleakness is all.”
Source: Love's Shadow
“If there is one sin—or rather one waste—it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.”
“If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.”
Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God
“If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.”
Source: When You've Been Wronged: Moving From Bitterness to Forgiveness
“If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.”
“If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll...
“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”
“If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that’s an important lesson.”
“If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.”
“If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.”
“If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.”
“If there is one thing common to the great modern speculative philosophers, Leibniz, Hegel and Deleuze, it is the risk that re-animating the universe with a non organic life might make it altogether uninhabitable for sane human beings.”
Source: Deleuze and the Unconscious
“If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids into perfect achievement machines don’t have any effect at all. Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to be able to fall in tune with their kids’ needs, combining warmth and discipline. They need to establish the secure emotional bonds that kids can fall back upon in the face of stress. They need to be there to provide living examples of how to cope with the problems of the world so that their children can develop unconscious models in their heads.”
Source: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
“If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.”
“If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.”
Source: Golf My Way
“If there is one thing I am, it's always right.”
“If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
“If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it’s the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And… there isn’t a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive.”
Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.”
“If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.”
“If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.”
“If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.”